The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by flavor8 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:17PM (#18294387)

I noticed one internally inconsistent detail, although possibly he just mis-remembered. They called him "after midnight" in Connecticut. He called them back, which took less than 10 minutes. After some discussion he calls his employee in Oregon - "by then it was after 4AM on the west coast." Midnight in Connecticut is 9PM on the West Coast, so unless the conversation went on for 7 hours before he called Ron, he's wrong about one or the other of the times.

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by apple4ever on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @03:18PM (#18295508)

18 years is a long time ago, and memories fade and get corrupted even after a short period of time, much less that long (its on reason we have statutes of limitations on most crimes).

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Re:The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source ... by pavritch on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @08:08PM (#18297570)

You're absolutely right...I forgot the time diff as I wrote the story and some is just plain fuzzy after all this time. I spent hours on the phone with them that night and I was giving them guidance by memory since I was so familiar with the code. Somewhere in the course of that they ventured to ask for he source.

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